Now the government is criticized in its entirety

Following the socio-economic bloc of the government, President Vladimir Putin also criticized representatives of his “security forces”. The reason for this was the five-year work plans they presented: the president admitted that they “disappointed” him and recommended “getting rid of formalism.” Mr. Putin demanded from the Ministry of Defense that by the end of the year the problems with military personnel standing in line for housing since January 1, 2012 should be resolved.

Vladimir Putin's view of the plans of the security agencies turned out to be just as skeptical as in the case of the economic bloc
Photo: RIA NOVOSTI

Opening the meeting, Vladimir Putin reminded the participants, including the head of the Ministry of Defense Sergei Shoigu, the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Vladimir Puchkov and the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev, of personal political responsibility for the results of their work. “I have recently become acquainted with the plans that were presented by civilian departments, and there are many problems there,” the president said (his words were reported yesterday by Russian news agencies . - Kommersant). “ But what I saw in your plans, me, I won’t lie, it was disappointing.” He complained that “there is no need to write that the issue will be resolved if appropriate financial resources are allocated - after all, the budget law has been adopted,” and advised acting within the framework of the adopted budget. “Tasks need to be formulated specifically and the simpler the better,” said Mr. Putin. He added: “If some tasks of the year do not correspond to what is written in the decrees, it is necessary to work out this issue with the government, work with the Ministry of Finance. We need to get rid of formalism.”

The President also recommended not to develop “large volumes, from which it is not very clear what the results of our work will be at the end of the year” (quoted by Interfax). “Formulations such as “to work through the issue of the need to develop a draft law”, you know, are no good. What is “to work through the issue of the need to adopt a law”?” - Mr. Putin asked. And he demanded that this year the Ministry of Defense provide all homeless officers who were on the waiting list on January 1, 2012 with permanent housing.

The military department is currently developing a bill that would allow the main form of compensation to be a one-time monetary reward: in fact, instead of issuing housing, military personnel will be asked to give money to purchase it. As Deputy Defense Minister Ruslan Tsalikov reported yesterday, the number of people on the waiting list as of January 1, 2013 was 55 thousand people. “According to our calculations, an officer can receive one-time cash payments for permanent housing in the amount of 3 million rubles,” he said. “This is the lower limit for one serviceman.” According to Kommersant's source in the military department, the issue comes down to the budget's capabilities: the Ministry of Defense wants to take into account the number of family members of a serviceman, as well as his length of service, when making payments. “With this development of events, we will go beyond the budget,” he added. “We still have a conversation with the Ministry of Finance on this topic.” Yesterday, news agencies reported that Mr. Putin demanded that the Ministry of Defense provide all military personnel standing in line for permanent housing from January 1, 2012 with housing until the end of December.

Let us recall that throughout his entire work in the military department, ex-minister Anatoly Serdyukov tried to solve the problem of providing military personnel with housing. By the beginning of 2008, there were about 90.7 thousand homeless servicemen in the Ministry of Defense, but soon they were joined by officers who were transferred to the reserve before 2005 and did not receive housing - military officials then told Kommersant that they did this “on instructions from above.” ". As a result, their total number was 175.6 thousand people. Mr. Serdyukov himself promised in September 2012 to fully provide the military with housing “at the turn of 2022-2023.”

During the meeting, other departments also received instructions. Thus, the Ministry of Internal Affairs will need to “rigidly suppress the activities of organized criminal groups formed along ethnic lines,” and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will need to “promote partnerships with CIS countries” and work “to create a Eurasian Economic Union by 2015.” Vladimir Putin emphasized that the vast majority of departments represented at the meeting report directly to him. “Of course, I expect high performance discipline and effective work from you,” said Vladimir Putin (quoted from RIA Novosti).

Let us recall that on June 7, the president criticized the government’s socio-economic block. He stated that “the quality and content of the documents do not yet meet the requirements,” and in the developed five-year plans there are “too many general formulations and vague phrases.” The president gave three to four weeks to finalize them (see Kommersant, June 8).

Ivan Safronov

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